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X-ray imaging of a water bear offers a new look at tardigrade internal anatomy

BACKGROUND: Tardigrades (water bears) are microscopic invertebrates of which the anatomy has been well studied using traditional techniques, but a comprehensive three-dimensional reconstruction has never been performed. In order to close this gap, we employed X-ray computed tomography (CT), a techni...

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Autores principales: Gross, Vladimir, Müller, Mark, Hehn, Lorenz, Ferstl, Simone, Allner, Sebastian, Dierolf, Martin, Achterhold, Klaus, Mayer, Georg, Pfeiffer, Franz
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6511223/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31110777
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40851-019-0130-6